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Indigenous territories and natural resources that exist in them are essentially part of life, culture, history, health and social reproduction of indigenous peoples.
At first rights to exploit these ancestral lands belonging to the Nationality of Achuar. Of each can not be simply bought and sold or exchanged for land elsewhere, but is an integral part of the identity of the people who live there and have lived. This happened in the past is to be avoided in the future because it is part of our reality and there are no strangers to the contamination suffered by our indigenous brothers 
The film includes testimonials document, specifically the community of Zion, which is washed by the river flows north of the Peruvian Amazon. There he stood, since the early 70s, first the Oxy Petroleum and later in the decade of the 90s, the batch was transferred to the company in Argentina Pluspetrol.
In video visual, villagers themselves, including their authority for how oil exploration on their ancestral lands has brought only misfortune, polluting its waters and poisoning scaring animals and causing unknown diseases.
The Achuar people, is located in the Loreto region, between the rivers Pastaza, Hucosaga, meona and Corrientes. Its population of about 12,500 residents and are organized in some 77 communities.
The Achuar are part of the Jivaro linguistic family (along with the Aguarunas, and ethnicity Huambisa Shuar del Ecuador) ... The Achuar indigenous people lived in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon for thousands of years. The forests and rivers have supplied them to all their livelihood needs, in addition to occupying a central role in traditional belief systems and cosmology. This symbiotic relationship has always been based on a profound respect for their physical environment and their ancestral lands.
According to his data, the oil company Oxy dumped an average of 850,000 barrels of toxic byproducts derived from oil extraction process directly into rivers used by the Achuar for drinking, bathing, washing and fishing. The amount was approximately 9,000 million barrels over the last thirty years of operations. In addition, Oxy land wells used to store drilling fluids, crude oil and oil products. These wells, dug directly into the ground, were open, unlined and without barriers. Often leaked into the soil and surface water and seep into soil and groundwater.
In fact, a significant number of children of five Achuar communities living in the area are now showing high levels of lead in blood, and in his view, "the only likely source of this lead poisoning is pollution that comes from the production oil. And it has an impact on fish, hunting, agricultural productivity, in addition to the Achuar currently have to travel long distances to return home with less food and lower quality than in the past, when they could hunt and fishing nearby.
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